Feeding the Fire The Lost History and Uncertain Future of Mankind's Energy Addiction

Name: Feeding the Fire The Lost History and Uncertain Future of Mankind's Energy Addiction
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ISBN: 9780307237446

ISBN-10: 0307237443

ISBN-13: 9780307237446

Edition: 2007

Authors: Mark E. Eberhart

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From the first spark created by human hands thousands of years ago, mankind has grown dependent on nature' s vast stores of energy to build, explore, and experiment. Our expanding knowledge and technologies have come from the felling of forests to the harnessing of wind and water, from the burning of coal and oil to tapping the energy of the atom. Energy does more than heat our homes and fill our gas tanks; it fuels our imaginations. Our future is inextricably linked to energy, and in this groundbreaking book, Mark Eberhart examines our historic quest for power and tackles the brutal realization that there are limits to the energy Earth can provide. In Western society, we treat energy as a…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/8/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Introduction : energy and imagination
The thinking man's diet	p. 3
Diet basics I : nothing but energy	p. 12
Diet basics II : all energy is not equal	p. 28
Talking thermodynamics, thinking in pictures : entropy	p. 39
The thermodynamics of forgetting : the energy in information	p. 52
The energy ride : the big picture of energy metabolism	p. 67
The age of atoms	p. 80
The age of molecules	p. 92
From life to fossil fuels	p. 106
Keep cool, man, real cool : human evolution and the origins of imagination	p. 121
The great energy rule : first came agriculture	p. 143
A tale of two cities : wood to burn	p. 151
Saving the forests : coal to burn	p. 163
And there was light : oil to burn	p. 172
Power unleashed : electricity	p. 194
First, the bad news	p. 215
Now for the good news	p. 226
The thinking man's energy diet	p. 245
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